It was a great game that would benefit greatly from newer tech. That doesn't mean there's any obsession with the past.

If it were as easy to remake a movie and have the remake be as great as the original, more such things would happen(it STILL happens, but many of them suck). But getting an entire cast of actors and a director and producer and someone to write the score that are just as good as the original is much harder to do.

That's not to say succeeding with this will be easy, though.

In any case, why WOULDN'T people want to see things they loved look even better if possible?